Rectum fitting



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RECTUM FITTING Filed Oct. 24, 1949 Imventors torneg Patented Dec. 19, 1950 2,534,664 RECTUM FITTING Louis Gottlieb, Sam M. Gottlieb, and Goldene Gottiieb, Kansas City, Mo.

Application October 24, 1949, Serial No. 123,249

This invention relates to a rectum fitting for assisting in overcoming constipative conditions in combination with exercising apparatus to be used with such fitting.

One of the objects of the invention is to produce a casting or form member designed to be received within the crease between the cheeks of the rectum which is pressed or worked into place and causes flexing of the muscles and assists in reducing fecal matter. The expulsion of compact dry fecal material often results in tearing or laceration of the colon, which in turn leads to other troubles. It is to be understood that each device will be individually molded or patterned to fit each patient as all humans have distinctive characteristics.

Another object of the invention is to produce a device of the character disclosed which may be either in the form of a plate mold or may be hollow for containing hot water or the like to bring the device up to body temperature before use.

A further object is to produce a fitting of the 1 Claim. (Cl. 128-30311) character described which may nor may not be provided with openings in its face for accommodating and kneading the flesh of the rectum, and such openings may, if desired, be a caricature by simulating the eyes and mouth of a human face.

Another object is to provide convenient supports for assisting in sustaining the body weight while the fitting is being inserted in position; The body support, by preference, is combined with an exercising framework comprising suitable swing rings and a series of roller equipped ladder rounds and overhead roller equipped parallel bars, whereby a person troubled with constipation can perform such stomach muscle stretch and exercising as is inducive to gas expulsion and overcoming other harmful effects resulting from constipation. This apparatus as illustrated herein is permanently attached to the floor and ceiling, but it may be attached to the wall, mounted in a concealing cabinet, be of knock-down or store-away type, or otherwise.

It is to be understood that the various devices of the invention may be made of any suitable materials, such as, iron, steel, aluminum, copper, plastics, earthenware, rubber, wood, wax, etc., and may be either solid of plate form or hollow, as a water containing tank or bottle. The device is not only molded or formed in accordance with the patients characteristics, but also will be made in accordance with the configuration of the supporting toilet seat, chair or what not. If designed for toilet seat use, it will also be made to suit individual taste, either to be used facing the wall or fiush box or facing outwardly some of the toilet seats being of different curvature or form at front and rear.

With the general objects named in view and others as will hereinafter appear, the inventionconsists in certain novel and useful features of construction and combination of parts ashereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a fitting embodying the invention as applied to a toilet 's'tool.

Figure 2 is a side elevation'of the same.

Figure 3 is a cross section through a tank form of fitting.

Figure 4 is a cross section through a plate form of fitting.

Figure 5 is a side elevation of one form of plate fitting.

Figure 6 is a cross section through the rolling parallel bars and ladder rounds or steps.

Figure '7 is a face view of a fitting having mas-. saging openings caricaturing a human face.

In the said drawing, where like reference characters identify corresponding parts in all of the figures, I is a rectum fitting, which preferably is produced directly from a wax casting or molding made from the individual for whom the litting is designed. It has been found that all human beings in this respect generally conform to a wedge-shaped protuberance 2, of gradual taper 3 from the highest point toward the front and of more steep taper 4 from the highest point toward the rear. About the median point in the length of the steep taper 4-, a depression or cavity 5 appears which is essential to accommodate the terminal or lowest bone in the spinal column, otherwise contact with this bone might lead to the injury of the patient. Also in the average individual a pair of side cups or pockets 6 are produced in the long wedge taper 3, which correspond to human configuration when the fitting is in place.

This individual mold or pattern may be produced in plate form 1, Figures 4 and 5, or as the top surface of a tank or bottle 8 as shown in Figure 3. In the bottle form where there is no top opening as hereinafter mentioned, a filling and draining spout 9 may be provided. It will also be understood that the flange or rim portion In of either form of the fitting may be fiat or curved in any desired manner to conform to the outline of the toilet seat or other support 3 with which the device is to be used so that the fitting will be held steadily in place while being used for body massage, toning of the muscles and stretching of the parts.

As a means of accommodating the fatty parts and to assist in the massage of the parts, the face or top of the fitting may be provided with a series of through openings into which flesh folds will enter as shown at H in Figure 7. In this figure as a means of caricature, the openings simulate the mouth and eyes of a human face. Besides massaging the parts, these openings lessen the weight of the structure, provide for convenient hand-holds, and openings from which the fitting may be suspended when not in use.

In the actual use of the fitting it should be brought up to body heat either by filling the tank form with hot water, or by immersion of the plate form, or otherwise warmed. To assist the patient inthe use of the fitting without possible injury to himself, it is preferred to have any suitable body support or rest which is convenient for grasping, by the patient so that his body weight may be gradually lowered on the fitting: as it goes into position, either with or without any suitable lubricant, as found necessary or comfortable to the patient. One convenient means is by a pair of rings I2 suspended from the ceiling some distance above and to the front of the toilet stool I;3. If the device is to be used with the patient facing the rear, then the rings i i are provided for the same functional use as those. shown at l3.

Although the structure as thus far described will be found to offer great relief to those suffering from chronic constipation, the apparatus. now to be described, if consistently utilized, will greatly assist in permanently bettering one of the causes of the condition and will aid in the expulsion of gases which frequently plague constipated individuals. This apparatus is in the form of an exercising trapeze or rings, a roller ladder or steps and an overhead framework or series of roller, equipped parallel bars. These devices for convenience of illustration are shown as a pendent installation, but it is to be understood that they can be concealed in a cabinet, or made knock-down or removable if desired.

In the installation as illustrated a pair of vertical parallel uprights l-5 are secured to the floor and ceiling, said uprights being connected together by a series of vertically spaced parallel ladder rounds or steps, preferably of roller form comprising a central shaft or rod [6 and a roller i7 journaled thereon, see Figure 6. The lowerrings 20 or a trapeze bar, if desired, is suspending from the ceiling or other support. The patient will grasp the rings 20, step up on the toilet flush seat, the box, and then the ladder rounds, sustaining the larger part of his body weight from the rings, until finally he may project his legs through the horizontal rounds at the top of the structure and he can then roll himself back and forth and up and down, with the pressure against the back of his legs and his head inverted. Climbing the ladder and exercising in an inverted position stretches the abdominal muscles and will impart tone and vitality to the body parts. These exercises with theuse of the fitting above described will frequently restore or reactivate the necessary body functions and restore normal passages or ex- Qretions.

From the above description and drawing it will be apparent that we have produced a construction embodying all of the features of advantage set forth as desirable, and while we have described and illustrated the preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that. we reserve the right to make all changes within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

We claim:

A. therapeutic device comprising a member having a pair of similar concavities, receiving the gluteus muscles of a patient, and an inclined plane or wedge separating said concavities, the two. side faces of the wedge having identical slopes, but the fore and aft inclinations being comparatively gradual and abrupt in relation to each other.

LOUIS GOTTLIEB. SAM M. GOTTLIEB. GOLDENE GOTTLIEB.

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